Richard Garlick says that West Brom’s approach to the transfer window won’t be altered by the decision to bring the deadline forward.

Beginning next summer, Premier League clubs will have to conduct their business before a ball is kicked; since the introduction of the window, the campaign is well underway by the time the window shuts, with clubs tending to panic buy if their season gets off on the wrong foot.

From 2018, England’s top flight will have to make do with the squads they’ve assembled in early August.

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Garlick, Albion’s director of football administration, has welcomed the ruling which was voted for by 14 of the 20 Premier League clubs, but has anticipated that while preparations must be in place earlier, the actual business side of the window will change very little.

“I don’t think it will change anything for us in the transfer window itself,” Garlick said. “That will always go through three phases.

“The first is the deals you can get done at the start - the player wants to come, his club want to sell and we want to buy. Jay Rodriguez was a classic example of that this summer.